by Fran Leitch | Aug 31, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
(August 2020) Tie at end of sleeve. False end? Or real? The annoying childhood quote which I’m still trying to tie/sew up lose ends with…and accomplish – Practice, Patience, and Persistence! (August 2020) 10 days, 4 hours of sewing per...
by Amelia Rothwell | Aug 24, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
‘The poet… is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs… the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.’ Derrida, 1982* ‘The poet’s job...
by Aphra Cheesman | Aug 21, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
“On our walk we encounter a few peculiar, rather incongruous objects, sometimes very much alone while others are in groups and radiate vigour and strength without ever being obtrusive. These are small things that speak to you and although you do not always know their...
by Macarena Bernal | Aug 21, 2020 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal, Sample
Im studying skin colours, in the search for a colour system or Pantone. Drawn to the word degrade, its meanings, its connotations. Degraded, degrading, degradé. And what it could mean to wear it. I noticed that this set of sphere halves, resembled the colour pallet of...
by Simon Swale | Aug 20, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Simon Swale
Much of my MFA work focussed on considering and exploring notions of space and place. Of finding ways to articulate spaces of the everyday that operate as thresholds and/or places of transition; where land meets water, such as ports, as well as other points of...
by Jack Hadley | Aug 14, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
by Vivien Atkinson | Aug 11, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Sample, Vivien Atkinson
So far I’ve been using a very basic darning stitch – I have the mantra ‘over under’ constantly running through my mind as I work. But thanks to reading Tom van Deijnen’s (tomofholland) blog I’ve become aware of other darning methods, Finnish, Scottish and Swiss – all...
by Susan Videler | Aug 7, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
Yesterday I had my Zoom meeting with Iris, I had been putting it off because the work was not flowing. As those of you who were at the masterclass this year will know, she sees into your very jewellery soul, which is at once disconcerting and a relief. These meetings...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Aug 4, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
Peter Deckers has given us a range of performative exercises to help us get out of our habitual working patterns. One of these exercises is to talk, shout, whisper or make sounds to your object, and see what response this creates in you or your object. What is your...
by Antonia Boyle | Aug 1, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
I initially started this handshake project looking at patterns of growth. Initial experiments were made out of metal using the pattern of skin cells to create a magnified version. If we think about cells and their patterns we suddenly realise we are surrounded by...
